And while Motz's book may not have helped me at the time anyway, since Maryland is completely overlooked, there are listings for Washington DC's Ben's Chili Bowl and Tune Inn, Virginia's Texas Tavern and Pennsylvania Charlie's Hamburgers and Tessaro's.

Anthony Bourdain calls the book "A fine overview of the best practitioners of the burger sciences."

And David Page, the creator of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives calls Motz "the Indiana Jones of hamburger archeology."

We are huge fans of the FX series Justified. It's sort of like Deadwood meets Dirty Harry as imagined by Elmore Leonard. And that last part sort of makes sense since he's an executive producer of the show and it's based on some of his work.

A few years ago, some folks were inspired by Free Comic Book Day (coming up the first Saturday in May) and created this awesome thing called Record Store Day - a day when a bunch of bands and labels release limited edition special pressings of records that go on sale on that day to celebrate and support record stores.